Year 4 Maths- Tangrams

In Year 4 maths we have continued with our work on visualising shapes. Our task today was to use tangrams to give instructions to our partner to make the picture on our card. We had to use mathematical language to be successful such as shape names, rotate, reflect, up down, left, right... We found it quite tricky but everyone did really well and focused on giving clear instructions or asking questions to clarify instructions We enjoyed working with different partners.During the lesson today the pictures we had to describe had the shapes clearly defined. At the end of the lesson we had a look at a tangram picture which did not have the shapes defined- we were determined to solve it and were so keen we were late going to playtime. We will be carrying on with our visualising work this week.  

If you want to try a tangram at home online, try this website. We will be trying some other online tangrams later in the week but can't access this one at school for some reason...
http://www.puzzlechoice.com/pc/Tangramx.html
Woodland Junior Maths Site appears to have links to a few good interactive tangram sites also which we will be trying out hopefully in Fridays lesson.

Also the children have been set a challenge to find out a bit more about what a tangram actually is and where it originates from.